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CG-NL.769.003
20 Jan 1769:41 (271)
[Poem, written in 1720, concerning the Irish attempt to wear
only Irish made clothing. Dean Swift and Waters were
publishing the treatise]
Brocado's and damasks, and tabbies, and gauses,
Are by Robert Ballentine lately brought over,
With forty things more: now hear what the law says,
Whoe'er will not wear them, is not the King's lover.
Thro' a printer and dean, seditiously mean
Our true Irish hearts from old England to wean;
We'll buy English silks for our wives and our daughters,
In spite of his Deanship and jurneyman Waters.
. . . [3 more verses]
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